Obama, who will be interviewed by Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune, will be discussing civic engagement in relation to technology at the event in Austin, Texas. He announced this in his weekly address on March 4:

According to the White House, the president is going to SXSW to build on the technological progress the U.S. has seen over the past few years and to ask creative thinkers and entrepreneurs to continue to help update the government and solve problems.

Obama will be the first sitting president to attend SXSW, which has been active for 29 years, and is the first president to hire a chief technology officer.

First Lady Michelle Obama will be attending SXSW as well as the Keynote for SXSW Music on March 16. She will be discussing Let Girls Learn, which is a global initiative to help girls get an education.

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